{"id":321085,"date":"2026-08-14T07:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T07:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/321085\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T07:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T07:04:12","slug":"connecticut-hosts-new-york-following-ionescus-20-point-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/321085\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecticut hosts New York following Ionescu’s 20-point game"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Liberty<\/a> (21-14, 9-4 Eastern Conference) at Connecticut Sun<\/a> (8-24, 2-12 Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

Uncasville, Connecticut; Saturday, 1 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: New York Liberty takes on the Connecticut Sun after Sabrina Ionescu<\/a> scored 20 points in the Liberty’s 85-81 win against the Los Angeles Sparks.<\/p>\n

The Sun have gone 2-12 against Eastern Conference opponents. Connecticut is ninth in the WNBA<\/a> with 33.0 rebounds led by Olivia Nelson-Ododa<\/a> averaging 6.0.<\/p>\n

The Liberty are 9-4 against Eastern Conference teams. New York ranks second in the WNBA with 26.9 defensive rebounds per game led by Jonquel Jones<\/a> averaging 7.2.<\/p>\n

Connecticut averages 79.3 points per game, 8.1 fewer points than the 87.4 New York gives up. New York averages 10.2 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.0 more made shots on average than the 8.2 per game Connecticut gives up.<\/p>\n

The teams meet for the third time this season. The Liberty won 89-80 in the last matchup on June 8.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Nelson-Ododa is averaging 9.5 points and six rebounds for the Sun. Diamond Miller<\/a> is averaging 11.2 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Jones is averaging 14.5 points and 9.4 rebounds for the Liberty. Breanna Stewart<\/a> is averaging 21.8 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Sun: 3-7, averaging 78.0 points, 31.5 rebounds, 19.7 assists, 7.5 steals and 5.0 blocks per game while shooting 42.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 88.9 points per game.<\/p>\n

Liberty: 8-2, averaging 97.5 points, 38.3 rebounds, 22.5 assists, 6.1 steals and 4.2 blocks per game while shooting 47.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 92.4 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Sun: None listed.<\/p>\n

Liberty: Leonie Fiebich: out (foot), Satou Sabally: out (head).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Liberty (21-14, 9-4 Eastern Conference) at Connecticut Sun (8-24, 2-12 Eastern Conference) Uncasville, Connecticut; Saturday, 1…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27066,68627,88667,54398,24863,9,11,8915,10,120978,27373,56783],"class_list":["post-321085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-breanna-stewart","tag-connecticut-sun","tag-diamond-miller","tag-event_preview","tag-jonquel-jones","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-liberty","tag-new-york-news","tag-olivia-nelson-ododa","tag-sabrina-ionescu","tag-womens-national-basketball-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}